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Punk rock andhardcore punk have created apunk subculture inSweden since punk music became popular in the 1970s.[1][2] Punk came to Sweden in the spring of 1977; the event credited as the beginning of the punk movement in Sweden was a one-day festival lined up with Sex Pistols, The Clash, Ramones, and Television.[3]
The most famous Swedish punk band wasEbba Grön,[4] followed byKSMB; other notable bands wereAsta Kask,Kriminella Gitarrer,Tant Strul,Pink champagne,The Pain andGöteborg Sound.[5] In the 1980shardcore punk,kängpunk andraw punk became popular in Sweden. The two most influential bands areMob 47 andAnti Cimex, whose music has also inspired many foreign bands.[3] Some other examples of influential bands areModerat Likvidation,Black Uniforms, Totalitär,Headcleaners,Homy Hogs andAvskum.
There is also a Swedish subgenre calledtrallpunk, with its roots in '80s melodic punkbands and raw punk bands like Asta Kask, Total Egon, Strebers, Charta 77, Puke, Rolands Gosskör and Sötlimpa, etc. Many of these early trallpunk bands had a powerful folk music undertone and a style of music with catchy melodies, fast drum speed and narrative texts, often left-wing political lyrics, and unlike the more aggressive hardcore punk, straight to the point lyrics. Notable trallpunk bands includeDe lyckliga kompisarna,Strebers,Dia Psalma,Charta 77,Coca Carola,Räserbajs,köttgrottorna,Radioaktiva Räker. later trallpunk bands took inspiration from American skatepunk and play a mix between the two. For example, Skumdum.[6]
Early punks in Sweden clashed with the youth movementRaggarna, which was working class and centered around cars, drinking, and rockabilly music.[7] These conflicts were described in lyrics, for example by the Rude Kids and P-Nissarna.
In the beginning, there were several venues and cultural meeting points associated with the Swedish punk subculture. One of the first of these was the Oasen in Rågsved, followed by Ultrahuset in Haninge, and Vita huset in Täby. Venues where a lot of punk is played today include theKafé 44 on Södermalm in Stockholm, and Verket in Umeå.
Punk in Sweden also connected with the hardcore scene that emerged inUmeå and other northern cities in the 1990s, with bands such asRefused (Umeå) andRaised Fist (Luleå) in the lead. Refused had a strong base in the genre's traditional roots and may in part represent how it sounded then, but experimented and stretched the limits sufficiently to their most famous songs rather have come under the term post-hardcore. In the 1990s, the punk scene also turned more towards crust punk with bands likeDriller Killer,Skitsystem,Wolfbrigade, andDisfear.[8]
In the 2000s many of the first and second wave Swedish punk bands such as Asta Kask, Dia Psalma, Mob 47, Moderat Likvidation and De lyckliga kompisarna reunited. They released new albums, with new songs. This decade many hardcore punk bands from Umeå and northern Sweden started to play more pop-influenced punk and the early Swedish punk like Ebba Grön and KSMB, for exampleInvasionen withDennis Lyxzén from Refused andKnugen Faller with Inge Johansson fromTotalt jävla mörker.[6]
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